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Quotes about Perspective

How do you know what it's like to be stupid if you've never been smart?
— Lou Holtz
Malcolm X's separatist ideas were situational. If you think about where African-Americans were in the 1940s and 1950s, we needed to step away because that force, which is still present but more subdued, was very in your face, and we needed to take a step back just to get some clarity.
— Kamasi Washington
The distant rear of an army engaged in battle is not the best place from which to judge correctly what is going on in front.
— Ulysses S. Grant
You realize that if you are to change your belief about God, you will also have to change your belief about yourself.
— Cornelius Van Til
Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.
— Vance Havner
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
— Victor Hugo
It does not hurt weak eyes to look into beautiful eyes never so long.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
— Victor Hugo
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
— Oscar Wilde
The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.
— Paulo Coelho
Don't be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you'll look back on them as the best times.
— Robert Kiyosaki